Fast Appetizer Creamy and delicious, this one pot sausage dip is super fast, easy, and perfect for an appetizer. It’s the best sausage dip ever! Call me lazy if you want to, but it is great only having 1 pot to wash after cooking! If you want to be fancy, put it all in a …
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God “Then you must tell ’em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it …
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you. The Setting, Afghanistan I stumbled upon this book through my membership in Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG), an international society of key women educators. Each chapter of this book …
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. This means I get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through my links, at no cost to you. Melania and Me is a great read! What I Expected I bought this book because I thought it would be light reading and a break from the …
The best writing prompts are ones that students can connect with. But, we know, some students hate to write in any shape or form. As long as I live, I will remember a student sitting in one of the front desks of my classroom, left side, who sized me up on the second day of …
My mama has made banana nut bread for as long as I can remember. You know when she has made it because you can smell it as soon as you walk in the back door. And whenever I have banana nut bread now, no matter where I am, it takes me right back to my …
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod Who I am …
Little girls grow up so fast. Faster than I ever could have imagined. From a tiny baby to a teenager, it is all going by so quickly. Our parents and grandparents try to explain this phenomenon to us, but we can never see it until we are older and in the middle of experiencing it …
Southern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees ~ Abel Meeropol I will never forget hearing the recording of Billie Holiday’s famous voice come over the Intercom in my classroom when I was teaching high school. …
Looking for a cute, quick appetizer that differs from what you normally serve? Or a fun snack to make with your kids? Strawberry & cream cheese wontons are so delicious, fast, and simple. Let your kids help by adding the filling, and tackling the job of folding and sealing. They can also sprinkle the wontons …
